You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. Stanley Kubrick
The village is a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is Number Six and will live there happily as Number Six for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break. Patrick McGoohan
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. Robert Frost
The village feeds the town. Bulgarian Proverb
In the village without dogs the farmers walk without sticks. Gypsy Proverb
Get along with the village headman, plunder the village. Persian Proverb